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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17
HONORABLE PROTEANs.

The Aberdeen convention is the first
organized movement ever held in Da-
kOta in the interest of statehood as
whole. 1t is the logical sequence of the
remarkable indication of public senti-
ment on the Sth of November. Hither-
to, neither in the legislature nor party
conventions, has there been nerve
enough among dissenting politicians to
stand in the face of the imperiouS eXac-
lions of the divisiOnistS and assert the
claim of unity. There may have been
political conventions that did not
squarely resolve in favor of dividing the
territory; but in none has there ever
been serious resistance to the separatOrs.
A new leaf has been turned. To the
diSmay of the crowd that have been
allowed to manipulate affairs, when
they called upon their following to stand
en- maSSe, vast number of quiet people
stood up on the other side. The union
list is no longer afraid of being lonesome
or Overawed by numbers. If the threat
that the issue is to be carried into the
party conventions the coming year ma
terialiZes, the conditions will be found
very different from the past. In neither
the Republican nor Democratic cOnven-
tons Will the old crowd have its own
way. They will be met squarely. One
evidence Of this is seen in the fact that
many politicians who have been
| counted on as diviSiOnists, or sat on
the fence, have now got down
and are fully identified with the ele
ment that just convened at Aberdeen.
This is significant, as some of these gen.
tlemen have political aspirations and
their study is to be on the winning side.
They are big straws in the popular
breeze. In the last legislature there
were divisiOniStS elected from several of
the counties that have now declared
most strongly the other way. Their
views were not known and no question
was raised. If the divisiOnists insist on
carrying the fight into the conventions
and the legislature, no doubtful or I'M
known men will be chosen, and the fact
that majority of the counties have
voted against division will pretty GER
tainly insure similar composition of the
legislature if the issue is made.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17
are in the majority, and they should be
represented.
AT ABERDEEN.


After settling the matter of the Farm
erS' alliance well in our minds, we took
our departure from Huron to attend the
convention for admission at Aberdeen.
Wednesday evening majority of the
delegates had arrived. and were actively
discussing the question uppermOst IN
the minds of all-the admission of Da-
kOta into the Union. Many things were
proposed, but as the results of the con-
vention show, they finally settled down
to a plain petition to congress asking
for an enabling act, and showing that
one should be granted for the reasons
that all the conditions of statehood
have been complied with in the case
division. no demand on congress
was made for the admission of Dakota
into the Union. 1t was simply and sole
ly respectful memorial asking for the
first time, all being in readiness. that
congress proceed to take steps for the
admission of Dakota in the proper way.
Congress cannot very we'll refuse such
decent request as this. 1t was many
times emphasized in the convention that
it was not admission that was asked
fOr-Only request from the people Of
territory in delegate convention assem-
bled, that steps be taken for
the providing of convention
to ask of congress admission. Then,
and then only is admission
possible. 1t is worthy of special and
prominent notice that this is the first
time that the people of Dakota have
ever asked for an enabling act. They
have asked for division. but never be-
fore for admission. With the array
that the results of this convention pre-.
sent, congress cannot very well refuse
to admit Dakota. The letter of Con-
gresham Springer that was read in the
convention and reported in the GLOBE,
was surprise to many. Mr.. Springer
has been basely represented as being
unfavOrable to DakOta's admission, but
this letter shows him to be one of Da-
kOta's very best friends. Thus one by
one the arguments against Dakota's adj
mission, fall to the ground and soon
now the grand and glorious big state of
Dakota will go booming into the Union.
THE LOOKER-IN.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17
EXPERIMENTAL GARDENS.

Among the various cOnYOcatlOnS OF
Dakota citizens the past week the meet
ing of the Horticultural and Forestry
society, which was in session at Huron
three days, is not among the least in i'm
portance to the welfare and future in
terests of Dakota. 1t was not a
large body, and was not enthused by
popular appeals to sympathies or preju-
dices. 1t was gathering of quiet gen
tlemen, convened to report their various
experience in the effort to solve the per-
picking cOnundrumS that confront those
who would make the vast treeleSs eX-
panse of the territory fit for homes, and
not mere staying places. \ great vari-
ETY. of valuable and interesting papers
were read and discussed, and much in
formation elected of an encouraging
character. While few results were re-
ported as conclusive as to methods and
adaptations, it was shown that
a sufficient variety of trees can
be grown in all parts of
the territory to answer every
need of the country-to diversity
the landscape, stay the bleak ravages
OF the tempeStS that work such loss and
peril to the farmer, 10 beautify the
home and make glad the waste places.
Eyergreens, in many varieties, were re-
ported success even in the North.
The somewhat common notion that for
estry is one of the accessories of civil
cation that could have small place in
Dakota was effectualiy refuted by vari-
Gus experience. Not only did these in
telligent and careful gentlemen give
evidence that ornamental and useful
trees and Shrubbery could be grown
with entire success, but that nearly all
the varieties of fruits that contribute so
greatly to the comfort and happiness
of people in the East could be given
homes in the territory. Efforts are in
progress to bring apples from climates
equally severe in Northern and Central
Russia, and to determine the
species of pears, plums, cherries,
grapes, ETC., that are best
adapted to endure the climatic
seventies peculiar to the territory
which are not so much low temperature
as the aridity of the atmosphere and the
fierce blasts, both cold and hot. The
most careful and conservative eX-
pressed the conviction that it is but a
question of time when the Dakota home
will be surrounded with grateful shade
and variety of fruits and flowers not
less useful and pleasing than those they
had left in the states. There are diff
culties of peculiar and local character
attending this conSummation, but they
will be obviated, it was believed. For
this purpose need is had of government
aid that has been denied, to establish
experimental gardens and stations to
aid in solving the climatic and other
problems that meet the Dakota hOrti-
culturist. At present they have not
even means to publish and disseminate
the varied and useful information ellie
tied at their meetings.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17
DIyIsIONIsTs BLAMaBLE.

1t would be relief TO the unhappy
remnant of the faction that have so per-
sistently sought to force their way to
statehood in ways not sanctioned by
good judgment or usage if they would
recognize the fact so easily discerned,
that absolute and final defeat has set
tied down upon their pathway. They
should be able to read the signs of the
times and diagnose the situation with
sufficient accuracy to perceive that di-
vision is laid away on the shelf of de-
funct issues. But there is in their rec
ord little to warrant any exhibition of
discretion and prudent acquiescence in
the inevitable. They will no doubt be
found at Washington this winter seek
ing to obstruct the only hopeful pathway
10 statehood. 1t may be that their eggs
are all in the division basket,
but as they will be unable
to secure a hen to do maternal duty.
they should stand aloof and see the re-
suit of the big Aberdeen sitting. OF
course they will not do this. They will
quite likely attempt to present the al
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17

iRent industry worthy Of special notice.
81. I Eomas is another active and grow
ing town, has seven elevators and re-
ceives more grain than any other town
in Pembina county. Bathgate is an inn
portant machinery center. \ larger
amount of machinery is sold here than
elsewhere throughout the county. HAM
iiton receives large amount of grain.
Cavileer is in the heart OF a
prosperous farming country and has
Touring mill with a 100
barrel capacity. Neche and Walhasen
are important points. Drayton, on the
new line of the Northern Pacific rail
road, is RAPIDLY growing, and a con-
tinuous growth prevails. Already she
has four elevators. and the large amount
OF wheat coming to her doors demands
increased elevator capacity. All the
above towns stand on solid financial
footing. Pembina county promises
golden egg" to every industrious
farmer citizen or mechanic who will
locate therein. +. ID. HARTSON.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17
A Political Issue.

Special to the Globe.
YANKToN, Oak, Dec. 16.-The mayor
and city marshal have 'boycotted'' the
houses of questionable character located
upon the levee, and are aiming to
purify the atmosphere of Yankton by
compelling the proprietors to go out of
business and leave the city. Police
Justice Pennington, however, will not
issue warrants against the inmates Of
these houses, and when they are
brought before him without warrant.
invariably discharges them. He claims
that he has no jurisdiction in such
cases, and refers the mayor and
marshal to the grand jury. Mandamus
proceedings have been commenced
against the public justice, and Judge
Trip has requested him to show cause
why he will not issue the warrants. The
Free Press and the Telegram are libeling
each other over this matter, and the af-
fair promises to cut quite figure i'll the
next municipal election.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17

aost forgotten Sioux Falls constitution

AOst forgotten Sioux Falls constitution
md Huron state machine, and endeavoi
to draw party lines in the senate in its
favor. If this is not deemed polite, they
will try to produce so much clamOr and
diSSenSiOn as to confuse and disgust
congress and prolong the chronic i'll
action on Dakota measures. They have
romantic theory that the Republicans
,an carry the general election next year
and secure control of the house as well
as retain the senate, when they will be
accorded the division of the territory. 1t
is understood that they will employ
Col. PLUMAIER to deluge the open ears
at Washington with his sOnOrouS vOlu
bility and boisterOus humor, unless the
one-state men see fit to outbid them for
his services. But the abundant wit of
the gallant DakOtian did not avail before
the Republican national committee re-
Gently, and those who laugh may not
vote as he urges. The divisiOnistS will
be met with the claim that the mass of
the people have shown that they are
wearied of their futile efforts. and al
most unanimously DESTROYS of admis-
sion; that they believe that four-fifths
of the voters will record their approval
at the polls of state equipment COM
prising the entire territory, and that the
gentlemen opposed will have ample OPP
pOrtunity to canvass the work and pre-
sent its dement's to the people. If they
are warranted i'll their claim that the
voters will not accept statehood
without division, the fact will be DEM
Onstrated at the ballot box. But they
dare not trust the people on this issue.
1t may be assuredly predicted that if
Dakota is not this winter authorized by
congress to form state constitution,
the blame will rest with the faction that
insist upon division as preliminary
condition.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17

bounty tariffs, Tor the removal of al.
duties upon every article covered by the
various trust combinations, and strong
government grasp upon the railway
kings and mOnOpolists of every stamp.
The alliance farmers of Dakota are
evidently comprehensive and broad in
their views, and while not likely to
break up the beaten courses at once.
there are ample possibilities within
their reach TO compensate them fol
their largest effort.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17
Col. PIumnler IL Winner.
jamestown Alert

jamestown Alert.
Col. Plummer seems to have made a
winning with the Republicans at Wash
ington. He made a stirring speech at
the meeting of the Republican league
Friday, and now invitations to stump
dozen different states in the coming
presidential campaign have been poured
in upon him. The colonel, who has
done some effective work on the stump
in the past, will doubtless have many
next year to advertise
Dakota and tell the people of the East
the story of the great territOrY's WRONGS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17
Police Too Fresh.
Jamestown Alert

Jamestown Alert
Numerous arrests of persons at
Fargo because they were thought by
the police to be suspicious characters"
is one of the late outgrowths of the
''spy system" that is bound to flourish
in Dakota now, and cause much trouble.
and pickering. A gentleman, a friend
of Gen. Allen, was kept in Jail over
Saturday night and until Sunday before
he had a chance to identify himself.
The mayor says the police are too fresh
there, and cautions them for the future.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17
Continued.

Special to the Globe.
YANKToN, OAK, Dec. 16.-Again the
quo warranto proceedings against the
asylum trustees has been postponed.
Owing to continued illness in the fam
lily of Attorney General Templeton,
until Dec. 81, when the case will be
finally DISPOSED Of.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17
REsOLUTE PROHIBITIONIsTs.

The large measure of success attained
by the W. G. Il. U. and their cohorts at
the election, followed by the opinion of
the United States supreme court, has
whetted their appetite for larger
triumphs. and the programme is now
being made up TO move on the legislative
works a year hence with the demand for
prohibition spread over every foot of
Dakota soil. About one-third of the
counties still have the right to imbibe
from glassware without fracturing any
law of the commonwealth. and the ex-
tinctiOn of this condition is now the aim
of the bibulous reformers. They do not
propose to rest until ''clOSed'' is
placarded upon the last saloon
door in the territory. Of course,
if statehood interyenes, the pro-
gramme will be adapted to that event.
1t is hardly probable, however, that any
legislature will enact such law with
out submitting it to popular vote for
approval or rejection. The voting done
OH the Sth of November is by no means
conclusive as to the outcome when a gen.
eral issue is made up. The thirty coun-
ties that have now stood aloOf or direct
ly rejected the measure will all be
counted in, and it may be presumed
will continue their present antagonism.
In addition there will be cast about
10000 votes not brought out at the late
election. With the small majorities
generally given in the counties that
adopted prohibition. there is no assur-
ance from the present status as to the
ultimate result.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17
A SORT OF A FREAK,

Some one who recently jOstled Da-
kOta's most noisy talker. Col. PLUAINIER,
ELECTED from him this statement in re-
gard to the Democrats in congress and
the tariff question: They are think
ing too much about getting more offices
and keeping what they have to take
active measures in any matters of ma
tiOnal interest. The Democratic party
is relic of baTbarism, same as Mormon
ism is relic of barbariSm."
The colonel is not exactly one of the
productions of the territory. and is not
responsible for his peculiarities. He is
of New England Puritan stock. but the
stern virtues of his ancestry did not
quite come down to the colonel. Prob
ably his neighbors of the BLAINE fam
lily secured what there may have
been handed down of this
moral estate. Still Dakota takes
a degree of pride in its peculiar citizen,
just as it does in its big beets and
natural curiOsities. He is sparkling and
smart, always aims to keep people
awake about him, and astOnish by his
oracular and vehement utteranceS. But
no one who knows him for moment
needs his declarations on any subject.
or attributes them to any conviction.
The colonel has always taken pride in
the claim that he wore his opinions as
he did his clothes, to be put off and on
as convenient and profitable. His brain
is always attached TO the pocket. The
latter. he holds, is the only rightful
impelling motive. He has at times
rented his tongue to the Democrats,
Republicans. Greenbackers, DivisionistS
and ants, ProhibitiOnistS and liquor men,
and all other elements that cared to
retain him. He speaks of the world and
its political and moral divisions as his
Oyster-tO be opened and the meat eX-
tracted. He has, however, worked the
Republicans and local option people
with the most lucrative results, and
will probably adhere to them for the
present. In the extract quoted he does
not mean to act the prophetic role
simply to please his auditors and get
into the papers as all advertisement of
his strength at the mouth, and enable
him to raise his personal tariff. That is
the only tariff that he knows or cares
about. In an esthetic point of view the
colonel is himself relic of barbarism.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17

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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.


The Farmers alliance, which has been
in session at Huron the past four days,
is body that must be recognized i'll eS-
timating the forces in operation to shape
the material interests and public poll
cies of the great territory. 1t consisted
Of $50 or more Of the producers, selected
by constituency Of some LOCO of the
earnest and intelligent citizens for their
capacity and fitness to legislate and de-
wise for them. Looking beyond the eff
fervescence of the occasion, the natural
result of the cOmmingling of sympa-
thetic minds, there is found the concrete
purposes that promise, in dis
Greet hands, to work out large
results. The essential objects sought to
be effected are of material and bust
ness character, and any political phase
is but spoke in the wheel-a factor in
the furtherance of the general pur-
poses. The farmers have found other
prominent interests and classes COM
bining to control business and COM
merce at the expense, as claimed, of the
producers. They believe that their own
protection requires similar or counter
concert of effort on their part. Hence a
couple of years ago they commenced TO
organize local alliances. which have
more than doubled the past year, land now
cover more or less fifty-eight counties.
Among the business accomplishments
of the year, as enumerated at Huron,
were. the insurance of more than 150,-
Geo acres of wheat against hail at a cost
of y cents an acre. and the payment of
$40, 900 losses; the erection of numerous
fiat warehouses and the retention in the
hands of the members of 4 handsome
per cent OF the cost to others Of nipple
mentS. Irvine, coal, etc. The results of
the first attempt have been so satisfac-
tory that they propose to enlarge their
radius and take i'll all the insurance the
farmer needs, both on property and
life. To furnish a basis for trading
operations, they have organized a stock
company with a capital of 100000. 10
per cent paid in. This will give them
credit and enable them to obtain supplies
at the best wholesale rates, it is claimed.
The saving they contemplated rounds
"n.in the aggregate, among the millions,
Among the still larger features outlined
as among the hopeful results is the
control of their wheat, to be shipped
and held by them in elevators and ware
houses of their own on the lake. and
there offered to the highest bidders as
pure, unaduiterated No. l hard or other
grades. In order to insure reasonable
freight rates, it is proposed, if it shall
be found neeGful and feasible, to build
a railroad from the south 10 the north
line of the territory on the east side,
crossing all the lines east; it is estimated
that this road can be constructed at one
third the usual valuation of railroads,
and the means will be supplied by the
counties or coming state. incidentally,
the alliance proposes TO enter the political
field so far as TO control the legislature
in the interest of its measures, which
are tC be formulated in advance and
made tests. Looking out into the larg-
er domain, the alliance takes ground
against the fostering Of monopolies by
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17

THE ABERDEEN COW ENIION.
The convention which concluded its
work at Aberdeen yesterday was, in
view of the conditions under which it
was held. the most notable and success
full political gathering Dakota has ever
known. 1t was imposing in numbers,
although convened on very brief notice,
strong representation being had from
The hard wheat regions of the
north, the older and more thickly set
tied south. the mining and stock sec
ions of the Black Hills, with more
abundant numbers from the thriving
and wide-awake center. 1t was strong
ana representative in its membership,
many of the best known and ablest men
of both political parties being active
participants in its deliberations. Scores
Of names could be called that are
household words in the territory.
For the first time every section of the
territory met to deliberate over the
statehood question. All other efforts
have been confined to section. That
so many men could be gotten together
in midwinter, from distances so great,
at their own expense, without the in
element of partisan advantage or the
stimulant of an election or the promo
ton of individual interests or schemes
only 10 subserve the common good-gives
the occasion marked significance. But
aside from the composition and numeri-
cal success of the convention, its chief
value and its influence as a popular
movement are due to the haT
mony, prudence and unanimity
OF its action. Every member seemed
thoroughly imbued with the conviction
that there was urgent need of shedding
the iIl-fitting and outgrOwn territorial
investment, and seeking the full pan
oply of statehood, nor was there dissent
from the conclusion that the most feast
bic and expeditions method of attaining
that end is by asking admission with
the present geographical limits. Some
had in the past acted with those who
took different view, but they had seen
failure after failure, and now were hand
in hand with the advocates of unity. 1t
was the prevalent feeling that all
minor considerations should be
Subordinated to the advancement
of the single aim of statehood. The
methods proposed to secure this are be-
lieved to lie polite and best conducive
to the result. The effect of the dispas-
siOnate and well matured presentation
of the needs and claims of the people,
in this authoritative form, must have
great effect in shaping public sentiment,
and with the strong personal advocacy
that will be had in the influential quar-
tiers in Washington, great confidence
may be felt that favorable action will
be secured, and Dakota will in good
time be one of the grandest stars in the
constellation of the Union. 1t is a nom
partisan movement, and it is not prob
Rble that factiOnistS can draw party
lines in opposition in congress.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-03-31
Special Request.

In view OF the pending Prohibition
campaign, we would be glad if our
friends would send rs the names OF
friends of the cause in oil tho ada
cent counties, and in fact throughout
Western Texas, to whom we may
send sample copies of the FREE Press,
which, from its antecedents and pc.
sition, should DO tho organ OF the
movement in this part of the State,
there being no other SO pronounced
nm advocate of the cause in said re-
gion.